The Official AI Free Label

AlfredoLlaquet · Thursday at 11:34 PM

Text by Alfredo Llaquet-Alsina (i.e., me).
Design and image by ChatGPT.

Note: Evidently, the following image cannot use the official "AI Free" label on itself. It uses it to present it.

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Espionage724 · Thursday at 11:45 PM

I've been interested if there was some kind of AI-free tag! A 400 page wiki and 6 websites almost 10 years zero-AI use is pretty cool

RetroComputingCollector · 2026-01-09T02:23:18+0000

surprised the logo doesn't have an orange tint over it

JohnK · 2026-01-09T02:37:59+0000

One could resurrect the "ASCII Ribbon Campaign".
something like:

Code:

                       _
ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
against AI content     X
                      / \

Or obscure:

Code:

REF: http://arc.pasp.de

Espionage724 · 2026-01-09T02:54:41+0000

JohnK said:
One could resurrect the "ASCII Ribbon Campaign".
something like:

Code:

_ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) against AI content X / \

Or obscure:

Code:

95 40 32 41 88 47 92

REF: http://arc.pasp.de

I'm definitely putting that in a code box somewhere, that's cool! Finally found a cool email signature too

Is the ASCII Ribbon Campaign specifically for plaintext email? There's a brief version with slightly different text, implying it didn't have to be about vCards too but singled MS attachments?

Code:

()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail
/\                        - against microsoft attachments

JohnK · 2026-01-09T03:23:27+0000

Sorry, can't really help much; the original ascii ribbon campaign is a little before my time (understanding/caring) -i.e. I started using a computer in 2000 so I didn't really understand what the email signatures meant at the time. But, glad you like it.

blackbird9 · 2026-01-09T11:59:26+0000

Superb

blackbird9 · 2026-01-09T12:03:56+0000

I quite liked this one.

AlfredoLlaquet · 2026-01-10T00:57:00+0000

I just want to clarify that I'm not anti AI, which should be obvious because I use ChatGPT to create the images of the graphic versions of my crumbs. I just thought that if someone really makes and sells something without using AI, they may as well use that as a marketing tool because nowadays every software app seems to want to include AI (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Windows, Firefox...), so it's not easy to make and sell something without using a tool that claims to be AI. Also, the term AI is very misleading, but in technology we have been using "intelligent" in marketing for so long that it isn't anything new. All in all, I like "AI." It's a great tool for certain simple tasks, and for grammar check, and creates nice drawings if you don't know how to make them yourself. I like real drawings better, though. I can't draw if my life depended on it.